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A Year of Bach

Evan Goldfine
Johann Sebastian Bach
Human Emotion
Bach
Literature
Classical Music
Societal Seriousness
Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Artistic Excellence
Classical Guitar
Recording Techniques

Bach is the greatest, and we still don’t talk about him enough. A Year of Bach extends my year-long listening project into conversation. I sit down with writers, philosophers, economists, and entrepreneurs to ask how this 300-year-old music continually rewrites us. Subscribe here: yearofbach.substack.com/ yearofbach.substack.com

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Historian Richard Tedlow joins me to ask what made Bach charismatic in his own time and ours. He also argues that no matter the political situation, “Bach’s music is going to exist as long as the human race exists and can’t be taken away.” Along the ... more

As Commissioner of the FCC during the Clinton administration, Reed Hundt helped shape the modern internet. We speak about his attending the first Beatles concert in the USA (with his friend Al Gore), and the democratization of publishing and broadcas... more

I’ve listened to Tyler Cowen talk for hundreds of hours about economics, music, history, art, travel, and regional cuisine, so meeting him on Zoom felt a little like stepping through The Purple Rose of Cairo. My composure mostly held, and it was a pl... more

Episode 2 of A Year of Bach Podcast features my conversation with the great classical guitarist Jason Vieaux. We talked about the pleasures and sorrows of adapting Bach for guitar, how not to play too big in a recording studio, and the pleasures of l... more

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Episode: The Expectation of Astonishment: Henry Oliver on Bach and the Hunger for Seriousness

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The Expectation of Astonishment: Henry Oliver on Bach and the Hunger for Seriousness
Q: Do you find, do you connect with the seriousness? Can you listen to it?
Yes, there is a hunger for seriousness in our culture, and people are increasingly recognizing the importance of experiencing profound art like Bach's.
The Expectation of Astonishment: Henry Oliver on Bach and the Hunger for Seriousness
Q: What do you think makes a great performance of Bach or Shakespeare?
Great performances involve more than technical perfection; they must also convey strong feelings and emotional depth.
‘Everything is melody’: Classical Guitarist Jason Vieaux on Bach
Q: What happens when you come back to a piece after several years?
Sometimes the tempos get faster. Sometimes they get slower, and I find I start to hear more as two-line type of things.
‘Everything is melody’: Classical Guitarist Jason Vieaux on Bach
Q: Where do you get stuck when you're trying to do the annotations?
It's more like baseline kind of things usually, where you have to decide on an octave displacement.

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